> I am not very much surprised if such a file misbehaves, because the > "format-patch | am" pipeline is designed to be used on patches that > can be transferred in plain-text e-mail safely. Long lines should > probably be OK, but mixed CRLF, CR and LF may be problematic.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. format-patch seems to work fine on binary files. So if it can handle any random collection of bytes, why not text files with (admittedly funky) CRs and LFs? Cheers, Ken On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Ken Tanzer <ken.tan...@gmail.com> writes: > >> ASCII text, with very long lines, with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators > > I am not very much surprised if such a file misbehaves, because the > "format-patch | am" pipeline is designed to be used on patches that > can be transferred in plain-text e-mail safely. Long lines should > probably be OK, but mixed CRLF, CR and LF may be problematic. > > Having said that... > >> I've confirmed with the following test case on three machines, so it >> seems reproducible: >> >> mkdir temp_test_case >> cd temp_test_case >> git init >> # my file. Sorry--couldn't find a saner link! >> wget -O jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js >> http://sourceforge.net/p/agency/code/ci/9358ea4dbe8e1540ec0b8bebfc7770f1bf8be0ec/tree/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js?format=raw >> git add jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js >> git commit -m 'Adding jquery-ui' >> git rm jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js >> git commit -m 'Removing jquery-ui' >> git format-patch HEAD~1 >> git reset --hard HEAD~1 >> git am 0001* > > ... this does not break at all for me. -- AGENCY Software A data system that puts you in control 100% Free Software http://agency-software.org/ ken.tan...@agency-software.org (253) 245-3801 Subscribe to the mailing list to learn more about AGENCY or follow the discussion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
